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5 Ways to Celebrate PE & Sport Week in Your School … All Year Long!

SHAPE America

Every May, we celebrate physical educators and coaches — the “champions” who help kids gain the confidence, competence, and motivation to be physically active in school, before and after school, and for the rest of their lives. Implement games into warmups and lessons that foster and complement the development of motor skills.

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So what is adapted physical education?

Arizona Health and Physical Education

specific sensorimotor programming ● specific play or leisure needs ● activities of daily living related to physical education such as dressing, showering or toileting ● positioning during exercises and games ● access to the general curriculum Adapted physical educators are not medical personnel nor are they behavior specialists.

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practical applications from neuroscience to coaching - developing 'thinking players'

Learning Through Sport

In this blog I look at some of the practical applications from neuroscience to coaching. Coaching can be thought of as seeking to influence habits. The 'mechanism' coaches can target to do this is player neuroplasticity. Coaches prime thinking Build requirements for player thinking from action goals to the context.

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Competitively engineering better child sport experiences

Learning Through Sport

A project a few years ago that we undertook using competitive engineering in an Australian football (AFL) competition (Elliott & Pill, 2016) found players, parents and coaches preferred the competitively engineered junior sport competition design to the 'regular' competition. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 85 (2), 218-225.

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Early Specialization vs. Multi-Sport Participation: What’s the Best Approach for Long-Term Athletic Success and Injury Prevention?

Better Coaching

In today’s competitive sports environment, parents, coaches, and young athletes are increasingly pressured to focus on one sport from an early age. This approach provides athletes with a broader range of motor skills and reduces the risk of overuse injuries by giving their bodies a break from the repetitive stress of one sport.

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PLT4M and Lakeshore Foundation & NCHPAD Partnership

PLT4M

The purpose of this collaboration is to support physical education teachers and coaches to provide better access and inclusion for students with disabilities. . PLT4M, the Lakeshore Foundation and the National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability (NCHPAD) are proud to announce a new partnership.

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Conflict Management for Sport Coaches

MSU

For coaches and other leaders, it may also be helpful to note specific situations in which competitive behaviors are frequent. Leadership is a relationship factor that can lead to conflict and is especially important for coaches to consider. In sport, a coach may take on a mediating role when conflict exists between athletes.